Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ... and accepts his sentence undismayed."

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence ...
ROBERT HEINLEIN

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

It might as well be a death sentence considering my age.
TOMMY ALLAIN

He wants you to sentence him to death. He came to America to die in jihad and you are his last chanc...
GERALD ZERKIN

A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He a...
J.K. ROWLING

People are raised to believe that happiness is the land to which they are destined to travel. But th...
PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER

Even in that difficult hour when he knew death was imminent, he never indulged in self-pity. He knew...
JAMES C. DOBSON

Secondly, the proper counsel and intention of God in sending his Son into the world to die was, that...
JOHN OWEN

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS

All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION

We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very ...
QUEEN VICTORIA

Whatever is in harmony with His Will, he accepts as True; the noose of Death is loosened from around...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no ...
THOMAS PAINE

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of pers...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of pers...
THOMAS A. EDISON

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous,
He must die a little death each morning...
DELMORE SCHWARTZ

I read the label underneath, That telleth me whereto I must; I see the sentence eke that saith 'Reme...
ROBERT SOUTHWELL

We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A ...
CRISS JAMI

Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when...
LYSANDER SPOONER

Christ was treated as we deserve, that we might be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our ...
ELLEN G. WHITE

And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The ...
MARY BALOGH

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and wil...
MARTIN LUTHER

We don't have a single point at which a person becomes old. People are able to be productive far bey...
KATHRYN KAYE

Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so...
WILLIAM BOOTH

It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
SUZANNE COLLINS

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; nei...
BIBLE

To realize that you are smarter than your boss but still must answer to him is an unnerving step in ...
TROY J. GAINEY

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he fin...
DON DELILLO

Since I encountered death, met death on every mountain path,conversed with death in my sleep, wrestl...
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES

Death frightens us. When we see another person die, we are reminded that we are also mortal, that so...
R.C. SPROUL

As long as a human being worries about when he will die,and what he has that is his,all of his works...
KABIR

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD

Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then...
I CHING

That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of...
EDMUND WALLER

That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his o...
EDMUND WALLER

At Valencia we changed the players virtually every match, maybe we will not be able to do that just ...
RAFAEL BENITEZ

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not b...
MAIMONIDES

A person learns as long as he lives and still dies a fool.
VIKRANT PARSAI

[Darwin acknowledged in his autobiography that as a young man he was] charmed and convinced ... The ...
WILLIAM PALEY

He didn't have one of his better games tonight. Once he learns to settle down and let the game come ...
BRIAN KEITH

It was a great sentence. He will die in prison.
GARY GAMBARDELLA

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
MARY RENAULT

I wish Merry was here," he heard himself saying, and quick thoughts raced through his mind, even as ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN

Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in h...
DEREK LANDY

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with ...
SUZY KASSEM

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishm...
ERNST JüNGER

Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit Tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I know for a fact there's individuals out there that won't pay to put them down or put them down the...
BUSTER BROWN

The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of...
ALLAN BLOOM

My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He wa...
ZOE WANAMAKER

It's kind of nuts in a way that he still has that kind of approach. He doesn't complain about his co...
DAVID MARTIN

If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presentl...
E.M. FORSTER

That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER

The officials in Canada might be sending him back to a death sentence.
BILL MCPIKE

If one loves, one loves the whole person as he or she is, and not as one might wish them to be.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY

So that here we have, really, the compound, the overall philosophy of Lincoln: in all those things w...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER

What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of the...
JOHN POWELL (WFP)

Life is precious to the old person. He is not interested merely in thoughts of yesterday's good life...
DR. DAVID ALLMAN

Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the min...
KILROY J. OLDSTER

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do...
ALBERT CAMUS

Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must...
HARVEY MILK

But it was true that for the first time, he was able to comprehend that the people he had gro...
HANYA YANAGIHARA

People are used to dealing with risk. You are told if you smoke, you are at higher risk of lung canc...
ANNE WOJCICKI

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, o...
C.S. LEWIS

Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS

If we can create habits at a young age, these habits will carry into adulthood.
BRAD JOHNSON

You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your hea...
HARUKI MURAKAMI

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one...
JOHN STUART MILL

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've pr...
JENA MALONE

He accepts his role because he knows that's what we need to do to win. The main thing which separate...
JACK STEPHENSON

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NICHOLAS SPARKS

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER

Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.”
His chains chinked softly. “I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through stri...
HERACLITUS

Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advanta...
SCOTT ADAMS

These agencies provide a safe haven for children in times of need, and we must help ensure that they...
JOYCE PRAGER

If it took professional wrestling for people to recognize me as a person, then all the other endeavo...
BILL GOLDBERG

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the lea...
JOHN PIPER

Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ... and accepts his sentence undismayed.

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Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ... and accepts his sentence undismayed.

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